We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men especially the most prominent one of the community the master's master the genius of the age.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power knowledge and sexuality since the classical age it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.